[time-nuts] Re: Deep Space Atomic Clock -- mission complete

[Lux, Jim]

On 10/7/21 7:42 AM, Keith E. Brandt, MD, MPH wrote:
> Time has run out for a NASA atomic clock experiment in space. 
> <https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/working-overtime-nasas-deep-space-atomic-clock-completes-mission> 
> JPL said it shut down the Deep Space Atomic Clock last month after 
> running for more than double its planned one-year lifetime. The atomic 
> clock, a payload on the Orbital Test Bed spacecraft launched on the 
> STP-2 mission in June 2019, demonstrated the accuracy in timing needed 
> to use it for deep space navigation. [NASA/JPL]
>
> --Keith
>
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